Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from a New York Interior Designed by Robert Couturier
An Italian Gilt-Bronze Model of the Furietti Centaur, Attributed to Giovanni Giacomo Zoffoli (1745-1805), Rome, Circa 1765
No reserve
Lot closes
October 16, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Current Bid
100 USD
3 Bids
No reserve
Lot Details
Description
height 21 ½ in.; width 15 in.; depth 7 in.
52 cm; 38 cm; 18 cm
L'Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, New York
Comparative Literature:
H. Honour, 'Bronze Statuettes by Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli', The Connoisseur, Nov. 1961, pp. 198-205.
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 178-179, no. 20, figs. 91-2.
Two large Roman carved marble centaur figures (AD 117-138) were excavated by Giuseppe Furietti at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, in 1736. They were first displayed at the Capitoline Museum in June 1765 and subsequently copied in plaster casts and in bronze for travelers on the Grand Tour.
